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Informations about the package pdf-to-text

Extract text from a pdf

Convert pdf to plain text, even on empty and encrypted files. This package is based on spatie/pdf-to-text.

Requirements

Behind the scenes this package leverages pdftotext. You can verify if the binary installed on your system by issueing this command:

If it is installed it will return the path to the binary.

To install the binary you can use this command on Ubuntu or Debian:

On a mac you can install the binary using brew

If you're on RedHat or CentOS use this:

To use the OCR functionality, install the following dependencies, in accordance to your package manager. The following example is based on Ubuntu.

To use the decryption functionality, install the following dependencies, in accordance to your package manager.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

Usage

Extracting text from a pdf is easy.

Or easier:

By default the package will assume that the pdftotext command is located at /usr/bin/pdftotext. If it is located elsewhere pass its binary path to constructor

or as the second parameter to the getText static method:

Sometimes you may want to use pdftotext options. To do so you can set them up using the setOptions method.

or as the third parameter to the getText static method:

Please note that successive calls to setOptions() will overwrite options passed in during previous calls.

If you need to make multiple calls to add options (for example if you need to pass in default options when creating the Pdf object from a container, and then add context-specific options elsewhere), you can use the addOptions() method:

To extract data from empty files, use the scan method, with it's respective options setter. The method decrypt opens "encrypted" files with empty passwords.

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License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

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